He unlocked the gate, and found that a spider had already constructed a large web, tying the door to the lintel, on the supposition that it was never to be opened again.

他把栅栏门打开，发现一只蜘蛛已经织起一张大网，将房门和门楣连结了起来，它大概以为这门永远不会再打开了。

On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path.

正如已经暗示的那样，假设珠儿是恶魔起源的，这些善良的人不无道理地争辩说，基督徒对母亲灵魂的关注要求他们从她的道路上移除这样的绊脚石。

Anger lay very close to disappointment, and soon won the victory over the conjectures her small ingenuity could devise to account for Arthur's absence on the supposition that he really wanted to come, really wanted to see her again.

愤怒几乎接近于失望，很快就战胜了她那小小的聪明才智所能设计出的猜想，假设他真的很想来，真的很想再见到她，以此来解释亚瑟的缺席。